CDS - People's Party

The CDS - People's Party (CDS-PP) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Portugal that was founded in 1974. The party was founded during the Carnation Revolution, and it was legalized on 13 January 1975 in preparation for the legislative elections that year. The CDS - PP was involved in center-right coalitions with the Social Democratic Party of Portugal from 1980 to 1983 and from 2002 to 2005. The party was strongly anti-abortion, anti-immigration, pro-school vouchers, pro-law and order, and anti-taxes, and it came to support Euroscepticism after previously supporting pro-Europeanism.